The Wee Free Men
A riotous, wise, and gripping junior Discworld novel from the Carnegie Medal-winning author and acknowledged master of comic fantasy.Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching - a wise shepherd - might have been a witch, but now Granny Aching is dead and it's up to Tiffany to work it all out when strange things begin happening: a fairy-tale monster in the stream, a headless horseman and, strangest of all, the tiny blue men in kilts, the Wee Free Men, who have come looking for the new 'hag'. These are the Nac Mac Feegles, the pictsies, who like nothing better than thievin', fightin' and drinkin'. Then Tiffany's young brother goes missing and Tiffany and the Wee Free Men must join forces to save him from the Queen of the Fairies-
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Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching, a sheep farmer's daughter on the chalk Downs of the Discworld, picks up an iron frying pan and goes after the Queen of Fairyland after her sticky little brother Wentworth is taken. She has the help of the Nac Mac Feegle, a clan of small blue pictsie men only she sees.
Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching subseries within Discworld has five books: The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight, and The Shepherd's Crown (his final novel).
Yes. The Wee Free Men is one of the few Discworld novels written specifically for younger readers. Recommended for readers 9 and up. Adult Discworld fans also widely embrace the Tiffany Aching books.
The Wee Free Men was written by Terry Pratchett, published in 1994 by BCA.
The Wee Free Men is 317 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Wee Free Men takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
The Wee Free Men is a standalone novel by Terry Pratchett, not part of a series.
The Wee Free Men is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.